It's been a while.

I just received a notice asking if I still wanted to get posts from our Sea Turtle blog. It has been a while since we made a post. Lynda had knee replacement and we didn't take the boat South this year, ergo no posts. We did, however take our travel trailer to Denver to see #2 son Josh, than on to Portland to see #1 son Seth and just as importantly our #1 granddaughter Vivian. We also loved seeing the ladies Kristi and Lisa.

From there we headed North through Canada to visit the last state on our bucket list, Alaska.  It was a great trip. We saw lots of wildlife and beautiful mountains. It was a trip of a lifetime taking 10 weeks and traveling over 13,000 miles.

We aren't sure which way our direction is going.  We love the boat and trailer both and the trips are quite different. At the current time, Sea Turtle is up for sale. If she sells we will be doing more of our adventures in the truck and trailer.

BTW we have added a new member to the family. He is an endearing cat that has been training us to cater to his every whim.  He sleeps on the bed with Lynda, let's us know when he wants combed or petted and especially when his food bowl is empty. He woke Lynda last night at 3:30 because his bowl was empty.

Anyway, I thought I would do another post so you would know we were still out here kicking around.   I hope you stick with us but if you want, you can opt out with the email you probably got today.

We will let you know when something else exciting is happening with us.

Sea Turtle Pictures

Day 82. March 9, 2017 Thurs

Day 82. 3/9/17. Thur. At home port Lightkeepers Marina
Little River, SC

Home at last. We arrived at our slip about noon. We had a calm night at anchor and left early. The day was warm and sunny. We went through a sketchy section called the Rock Pile at low tide. It really is where the channel was blasted out of the rock. It is safer at low tide because you can see it. When the water is high you know it is lurking under there somewhere but not exactly where.
We traveled 1624 nautical miles going from Home to the Florida Keys to the Bahamas and back.
This was our third winter of cruising and may be our last. We are getting up there in years.

Day 81. March 8, 2017 Wed.

Day 81  3/8/17. Anchored icw near Surfside, SC

Overcast early then sunny in afternoon. We had sail out to assist crossing Winyah Bay and on into the waterway. The wind direction was fairly consistent but speed would go from 4 to 20 kts in a matter of seconds. Hard to have the right amount of sail out. This was our last full day of this cruising season. We should be in Little River by early afternoon tomorrow. Supposed to be a cold night, in the 40s. Calling for possible snow Sunday in Little River. Maybe we came home too soon. Children come first. 

Out if bread, milk, cereal, sweet stuff for Lee, almost out of coke for me. It is time to go home or a grocery store one. 

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Day 80. March 7, 2017. Tuesday

Day 80. 3/7/17. Anchored between McClellanville and Georgetown, SC

We left our anchorage around 9:15. It was warm and sunny. Got warm under the canvas and we unzipped some panels. We had plenty of skinny water but hit the really skinny part at almost high tide as we planned. We saw 5.9ft at the lowest which was good. The low tide depth would have had us aground. A sailboat out of Oriental, NC anchored where we were last night . They drew 5.6ft and radioed ahead to ask us what was the lowest water we saw. They were behind us enough to catch absolute high tide. Glad we only have 4' draft. Would have been nervous even at high tide if I was in the other sailboat. Three inches of water under you is not much.  Pretty easy day except for the skinny part.

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Day 79. March 6, 2017. Monday

Day 79. 3/6/17. Anchored N. of Mt Pleasant, SC

Today was overcast all day. It was cool. We had some strong current against us a lot of the day and did not get as far as we had hoped. We will get a late start tomorrow in order to arrive at a shallow area when it is not dead low tide. We were up before the sun rose today. You can see the predawn picture on Lee's Facebk page. We think now that we may get home Thurs. It's been fun but glad to have it over. There truly is "no place like home". I will be happy to see my dishwasher, I have gotten 'dish pan hands'.

Days 77 & 78. March 4 & 5. Saturday & Sunday

Day 77. 3/4/17. Anchored off Hilton Head, SC

Typical day, stopped at Isle of Hope Marina and got enough cokes to make it home. Needed bread & milk but the marina store only had beer, pop and some naps & candy, plus tee shirts with their logo. Was a chilly night but day time under the full canvas was ok.

Day 78. 3/5/17. Anchored N of Edisto Beach. S of Charleston.

We left before 7am and motored all day. One on demand bridge made us wait 10 minutes. Not fun. We did not like the first anchorage we looked at, much shallower than charted, so we kept going. We did not anchor until 5pm. Long day. Still looking like Fri will be out home coming day.